Hi everyone, I'd like to propose an idea that I think could easily be implemented by 9.1 final and would be really great. I mean, wonderful. Most of you probably know the term "Fast user switching" from the Windows XP marketingspeak. Most of you also know that GNU/Linux is fully capable of doing the same thing.
The problem is, until recently, no one bothered to implement a GUI for this. Now Xandros has full fast user switching functionality -- there is a menu option that lets you login as another user (i.e. start another X session) or easily jump to another open session -- another tty). Red Hat, using gdm, offers the former functionality, but not the latter (you must still use Ctrl+Alt+F[num] combinations to switch). Now, I'm not sure if Xandros' modifications are GPL'ed or not, but even if they weren't, I'd imagine that they would be very easy to reimplement on Mandrake. Since GNU/Linux already has the capability, it is a real shame not to exploit it, I think. If MDK implemented both pieces of the puzzle that I mention above, it would be the FIRST major distribution to do so, and would also be the FIRST Free Software-friendly distro to do so. With it being mostly implementing a simple gui to watch open X sessions and allow easy launching of additional X tty's seems to me something that would take very little effort but be nice to brag about on the 9.1 press release. Just a thought... -Tim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Enterprise Open Source Journal: http://www.ofb.biz ================================================================
